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This is from another Group / Forum ........
It was a singular pleasure and honour today to join Urban Detectorist and a couple of family friends for detecting at Roslin and personally uncover the centre of the medieval silver coin treasure hoard!

The Roslin hoard appears to be all silver hammered pennies (around 50 as currently known) and was a deliberate burial in a ceramic pot or jar. The period of the coins appear to be just before the Battle of Roslin in 1303, which may be Scotland's bloodiest battle.

As soon as the fragment of jar was uncovered with at least a dozen more coins, confirming the centre of the hoard and likely more non-metal finds associated with the hoard, we stopped digging and made efforts to contact the local council archaeologist, who will take over for further excavations.

To see these rare wee gems blink in the Scottish light of day for the first time in over 700 years is just incredible.

Thanks Urban mate for having me on board!
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:shock: Very nice indeed :g38: :g38: :g38: :g50:
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Fantastic :g38: :g50:

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What a superb find :g38: :g38: :g50:

I wonder if they were originally buried by/under that tree or the tree has grown over them? Not sure if that tree is over 700 years old?
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i was thinking exactly the same pete..
what was their first the hoard or the tree:?
seven hundred year old tree, :g43:

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Looking at the bark on the tree... :g43: It looks to be some kind of soft wood, i.e conifer species, they're short lived in yrs in tree terms. Unless it a Yew and it doesn't look like that to me. More like a Abies or Picea (Fir or Spruce) So based on that theory the coins came first then the tree... :g58:
The last estate I was head gardener on was mainly a pinetum a collection of conifers and the plantings started in 1861 and the Abies and Picea's and other conifers were going past over maturity in to a quick decline dying off or being slowly felled one by one. Alot of which were national or county champion trees... :g48:
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Forgot to say great find and thanks for sharing with us... :g38: :g50:
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Fascinating read.Well saved.
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Well done on finding the hoard.
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lee greagsbey wrote:Looking at the bark on the tree... :g43: It looks to be some kind of soft wood, i.e conifer species, they're short lived in yrs in tree terms. Unless it a Yew and it doesn't look like that to me. More like a Abies or Picea (Fir or Spruce) So based on that theory the coins came first then the tree... :g58:
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Also how fortunate there was not a massive tree root growing right over the top of the pot :g58:
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I reckon the pot kept moisture in that area of soil hence giving the roots water. It's very common for roots to follow pipes and concrete edges for the same reason.
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